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- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
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- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.011331.20803@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:13:31 GMT
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- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) was telling me...
- >
- >Not difficult at all ...
- >My bot Tubster does this. He has a list of #hottub regulars, with an access
- >level for each. The lowest access level can get invited, the next can have
- >bans removed that affect them, the next will be opped if they aren't already.
- >The next access level, for the more trusted regulars, can have the bot leave,
- >can have all bans removed, and can have the channel unlocked (if it gets locked
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- easily implimented is a level of poeple you don't like too...
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- <grin>
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- >Oh ... he's written entirely in IRCII scripts. And he doesn't use any huge
- >amount of CPU time (about 3% of the CPU on this Sun Sparcstation.)
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- Ewww! You could rewrite it you know.
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- >Elitist? perhaps, but I really don't think so. I usually will add new people
- >to the list if they ask, unless I know them to be troublemakers. The access
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- Know of any other robots that will do that? There are very few.
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- >I wrote this bot in an attempt to reduce the number of bots that were doing
- >auto-ops on the channel, and I like to think I have succeeded. It was getting
- >quite out of hand when a person would join the channel and immediately get
- >opped by eight bots. (and I'm NOT exaggerating ...)a
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- So were these other robots useful? Doesn't sound like it.
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- -ALex
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- Dean Johnson djohnson@nyx.calpoly.edu Back off man! I'm a Computer Scientist.
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